Attorney, journalist, and Elon Musk biographer Seth Abramson eviscerated both Elon Musk and his “fanboys” who have attempted to use the billionaire’s IQ as an indication of his intellectual prowess in a series of messages shared on X Thursday evening and into Friday.

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    SpaceX was the leading private space company before he acquired it - it has actually lost ground to competitors since then but has an extremely passionate team behind it.

    Tesla was the first company to seriously take a swing at automated response with an eye to FSD - they’ve since fallen far behind Waymo and other competitors.

    When Musk worked at PayPal Thiel described him as a crazy risk taker and had him ousted as CEO while he was on two weeks of PTO for his honeymoon.

    Musk is a huge fucking dumbass with enough money to fail horribly over and over.

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      you’re not getting into UPENN being a complete idiot. Whoever started the company, Musk oversaw periods of the growth in SpaceX, Tesla, Paypal etc.

      Musk is (edit: not) the smartest person in the world like he thinks he is. But it’s nearly an objective fact that he’s not stupid.

      This is such a dumb hill to die on, and more importantly it benefits Musk.

      edit: and as for failed programs, welcome to the world of business. Google, Amazon, Microsoft Apple, etc. constantly launch ideas that don’t pan out. Are their leaders and engineers and everyone else dumb because a project failed?

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        You are getting into UPenn if your daddy owns an emerald mine and has pseudoslaves to work in it.

        And yes there are a lot a looooottttt of dumb people at google, amazon, Microsoft, and apple.

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          Evidence he bought his way in?

          Sure, there are a lot of dumb people at those companies. But that’s not the point. Failures don’t prove that the leadership or specific individuals are dumb. Plenty of smart people have failed.

          But have fun inadvertently supporting Musk!

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        And everyone there said it was because they had a dedicated team distracting Musk from the real work. He is, in fact, very dumb.